Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976)[2] is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.

Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his professional career.

In 2017, Bingham received a six-month ban from professional competition after breaching rules concerning betting on matches involving himself and other players.

He has scored nine career maximum breaks, the fourth most of any player, behind only Ronnie O'Sullivan (15), John Higgins (13), and Stephen Hendry (11).

[3][4] The following season, he reached the final of the 1997 World Amateur Championship but lost in a deciding frame to Marco Fu.

[10][11] In the 2004–05 season his best runs were two last 16 places in ranking events, including losing a deciding frame to Ding Junhui in the China Open.

[18] At the Masters' qualifying tournament for the 2007 event, Bingham won for a second successive season, defeating Mark Selby 6–2 in the final.

[22] At the UK Championship, Bingham reached the last 16, losing to Murphy 3–9, after victories over Fergal O'Brien and Davis.

[28] Bingham reached the quarter-final stages of the 2010 UK Championship having defeated O'Sullivan 9–6 and Marco Fu 9–2 before losing 7–9 to Mark Allen.

[31] In the second round he led Ding 12–9 but lost 12–13; had he won, Bingham would have finished in the top 16 in the world rankings for the first time.

[36] Bingham could not recapture the form he showed in Australia in the remaining seven ranking events, failing to get past the second round in any of them.

[44] Bingham won the third event of the Asian Players Tour Championship with a 4–3 victory over Li Hang in the final.

[54] He defeated Jimmy White 6–2, Anthony McGill 6–2, David Morris 6–1, and O'Sullivan 6–4 to reach the semi-finals of the 2013 UK Championship.

[60] Bingham defeated Li Hang, Dominic Dale, Alan McManus and Ding at the 2014 Shanghai Masters to reach the final.

[68][69] O'Sullivan was again the winner when the pair met in the semi-finals of the inaugural World Grand Prix, whitewashing Bingham 6–0.

[65] At the 2015 World Snooker Championship, Bingham defeated Robbie Williams 10–7, Graeme Dott 13–5 and O'Sullivan 13–9 to reach the semi-finals.

[77] At the 2016 Masters, he beat Ding Junhui 6–4 and John Higgins 6–3 to face Ronnie O'Sullivan in the semi-finals and was defeated 6–3.

[78] He overcame a 3–0 deficit to eliminate Joe Perry in the semi-finals 6–5 at the World Grand Prix and reached his first final of the year.

[87] A third ranking event semi-final of the season arrived at the International Championship, but Selby defeated Bingham 9–3 after he had been 2–0 ahead.

[88] He reached the invitational China Championship final and was 7–7 with John Higgins, who made three century breaks in a row to beat him 10–7.

[92] However, on 24 October 2017, Bingham was found guilty of breaking World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association rules concerning betting on matches involving himself and other players.

[94] On returning from the ban, Bingham won the 2018 English Open with a 9–7 win over veteran Mark Davis in the final.

[97] The following month, he won his second ranking title of the season, the Gibraltar Open, beating defending champion Ryan Day 4–1 in the final.

In winning the event, he became the tournament's 24th and then-oldest winner, superseding Ray Reardon, who was five months younger when he won the 1976 Masters.

[100] In November 2020, Bingham made the seventh maximum break of his career in the first round of the 2020 UK Championship, beating Zak Surety by 6–2.

[101] Despite being Masters champion, Bingham was no longer ranked in the top 16, so had to qualify for the 2021 World Snooker Championship.

[104] At the 2022 World Championship, Bingham defeated Lyu Haotian 10‍–‍5[105] and Kyren Wilson 13‍–‍9[106] to reach the quarter-final stage.

[108] He then lost his second round match to Allen 4‍–‍13 which resulted in Bingham dropping out of the top sixteen in the world rankings.